Loom-picker



UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICEQ JOSEPH 'PICKLES AND AMOS HORSFALL, OF NEiYBEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

LOOM-PICKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,7 93, datedSeptember 22, 1891.

Application filed January 2, 1891. Serial No. 376,529. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOSEPH PIGKLES and Arms HORSFALL, citizens of theUnited States, residing at New Bedford, in the county of Bristol andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement inLoom-Pickers, of which the following is a specification.

()ur invention relates to that class of devices which are used onpicker-sticks in looms to receive the blow in driving the shuttle acrossthe web and commonly called a loompicker, and its object is to produce aloompicker which will resist to the greatest extent possible thespreading and penetrating force of the point of the shuttle.

To this end our invention consists in constructing the pickerof asinglepiece of leather rolled together and pressed into shape in such a manneras to secure the desired result; and it further consists in cutting saidpiece of leather of such a shape as to cause the least possible waste ofmaterial.-

The accompanying drawings illustrate our in ven tion, in'which Figure 1is a view in perspective of a loompicker constructed according to our invent-ion. Fig. 9 is a plan view of the piece of leather of which it iscomposed. Fig. 3 isa cross-sectional view through the dotted line a: mof Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 shows the method of cutting the pieces ofleather'which compose the pickers, so as to make the smallest possiblequantity of waste material.

A piece of leather of the shape of Fig. 2 is rolled together from rightto left, the part a forming the inside folds f, g, and h, Fig. 3, of

the enlarged part a of the picker. After being folded together, asabove, the piece of leather is put into a suitable device and subjectedto a sufficient pressure to cause it to assume and retain the form ofFig. 1', When it is removed and the part b secured by the rivets (Z d.The pegs 2' i are then driven in to hold the outer edge and the pickeris finished. The face 6, Fig. 3, receives the blow of the shuttle, andas it is finally penetrated by the metal-pointed shuttle, instead ofgiving away entirely, as the ordinary picker does, it retains its form,because from the manner in which it is rolled up each part binds eachother part together and resists to the utmost the tendency of theshuttle to tear it apart.

In cutting the material for our improved picker the parts a lap by eachother, as shown in Fig. 4, and thus the minimum of waste in leather isattained.

That we claim is A loom-picker formed from a single piece of material,said piece consisting of a large body portion a and a smaller portion a,projecting therefrom, the whole adapted to be rolled together andpressed into shape, the part a forming the innermost portion of thepicker and being inclosed by the part a, the pegs i i, and rivets d d,binding said parts together, all as and for the purpose shown anddescribed.

JOSEPH PIOKLES. AMOS HORSFALL. Witnesses:

HENRY W. MAsoN, JAMES C. HITCH.

